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Snow Owl – September 2004
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National Geographic |
Canyon Del Muerto –
Branch of Canyon De Chelly - Arizona
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This article is comprised from
information taken from a registered and purchased National
Geographic program, thus the information and pictures are
copyrighted by them. While it should be quite evident that some of
the pictures were taken, originally, far earlier than 1982, the date
of the article/issue is November, 1982.
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The Chief Priest of the Snake Clan of
the Hopi People - His face and body are smeared with black and
white and yellow paint. His ornaments are many: a gray fox skin
dangles from his back; on his legs are bound shells of the
desert terrapin with points of antelope hooves inside to serve
as rattles; eagle feathers are carried in one hand, with which
snakes are stroked and pacified. A prayer stick is also in his
hand. Some claim that the priests drink and herb tea before the
dance which renders them immune to the poison, but all agree
that the fangs of the snakes are not extracted.
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Throughout their history the
Hopis have been aided by isolation in their remote mesas. Down through
the centuries there were occasional raids by Apaches and Utes, but
they were far fewer than the attacks on the Pueblo Indians of the Rio
Grande area.
The Hopis were relatively
unaffected by the Spanish and the Mexicans, who ruled over what is now
New Mexico and Arizona from 1540 to 1848.
Some of the buildings that the Hopi live in are called kivas. A ladder
descends from a hole in the roof, this symbolizes access to the
underworld from which the Hopi people originally emerge. In late
winter the kivas throb with drumbeats as kachinas dance well into the
night.
Appealing to the spirits for a successful crop, a man casts offerings
of cornmeal before tending his fields. Hopis grow more than 12
varieties of corn with short stalks and deep roots to trap moisture
deep within the dry soil of the area. |
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The untutored art of the American
Indian, with its lively appreciation of color values and
combinations, and of geometric designs, has been praised by the
art critics of every land. |
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Neil M. Judd, Leader of the National
Geographic Society Expedition, and Santiago Nahnjo, Governor of
a Santa Clara Pueblo some time around 1909. He was a member of
the Utah Expedition which discovered the Nonnezoalii, greatest
of nature’s stone bridges…
(Although, I have an idea that had they simply asked them, the
Hopis could have told them where it was all along…Snow Owl). |
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Hopi Indian and his home - The
brilliant red of his blanket proclaims the success of the SW
Indians in producing Colors. Some tribes were able to make
multi-hued blankets with the delicate shadings of the finest art
embroidery, the weaving being so perfectly done that one cannot
tell the right and which is the wrong side. |
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Hopi Boys of Walpi, Arizona - It is
said that Walpi has a cliff-top location comparable to the
monasteries of Meteora, Greece. |
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A drummer of the Oriabi - Hopi are
wonderful artisans of masks, kachinas and ceremonial
paraphernalia. On the shelf above the drummr’s head are masks
with their faces to the wall. Oraibi is/was the largest and most
important of the villages of the Hopi, in northeastern Arizona.
Before the establishment of a Spanish Franciscan mission here in
1629, it was said to have had
14,000 inhabitants. |
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Hopi girl of the Walpi (Place of the
Notch). |
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Hopi elders in discussion. |
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A Hopi Hair Dresser - Unmarried girls
among the hopi parted their hair in the middle from the forehead
to the nape of the neck, and arranged it in a large whorl above
each ear, a very distinctive style distinctive of the squash
blossom. However, as the girls became educated this picturesque
fashion fast disappeared.
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Hopi Kachina Artist - Many kachinas
are personalities of clan ancestors, while others are beings of
unknown significance, but possessed of magic powers – these are
in addition to the known ones which have distinct functions.
Each kachina is said to be endowed with individual
characteristics and is represented in at least six different
symbolic colors. |
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Hopi Kachinas for the Tourists of the
day. |
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The Pottery Maker - Indian pottery
makers were products of a higher civilization than basket
makers. The former achieved the greatest development of their
art in pre-Columbian America at
Pueblo Bonito. |
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